Film
Zappa
2020 · 2h 9m · Music · Documentary
Save the Vault. Tell the Story.
- IMDb
- 7.5
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 96%
- Metacritic
- 76
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Overview
With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa. Alex also utilizes in this picture thousands of hours of painstakingly digitized videos, photos, audio, writing, and everything in between from Zappa's private archives. These chronicles have never been brought to a public audience before, until now.
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Cast
Frank Zappa
Self (archive footage)
Mike Keneally
Self - Played with Zappa 1987-1988
Pamela Des Barres
Self - Author, Former Member of the GTOs
Lonnie Lardner
Self - Newscaster for Action News (archive footage)
Patrice Zappa
Self - Frank Zappa's Sister (archive footage)
Rose Zappa
Self - Frank Zappa's Mother (archive footage)
Francis Zappa
Self - Frank Zappa's Father (archive footage)
Edgard Varèse
Self (archive footage)
Don Van Vliet
Self (archive footage) (as Captain Beefheart)
The Mothers of Invention
Themselves (archive footage)
Johnny Guitar Watson
Self (archive footage)
Pamela Zarubica
Self - Zappa's Roommate
Carlo Zappavigna
Self - Frank Zappa's Brother (archive footage)
Bunk Gardner
Self - Played with Zappa 1966-1969
Ian Underwood
Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1975
Ruth Underwood
Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1976
Crew
- Alex WinterDirector · Producer
- Glen ZipperProducer
- Ahmet ZappaProducer
- John FrizzellProducer
- Devorah DeVriesProducer
- Jade AllenProducer
- Robert Halmi Jr.Executive Producer
- Jim ReeveExecutive Producer
- Anghel DeccaDirector of Photography
Media
Details
- Release date
- November 27, 2020
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 2h 9m
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $1,126,036
- Genres
- Music, Documentary
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